Curtin Theses
Recent Submissions
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(2024)Urban development faces the critical challenge of climate change, with the IPCC urging urban scientists to explore adaptation options. Local governments (LGs) are essential for adaptation, addressing risks to citizens, ...
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(2025)This thesis investigates how exogenous stress and performance-based feedback affect individual confidence, measured through prediction intervals. Two experiments reveal that stress slightly increases confidence, while ...
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(2025)This thesis explores the policy opportunities for Australian food banks to improve the quality of donated food through nutrition-focused food banking. It includes four studies: a scoping review, an audit of donated food, ...
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(2025)The high demand for fossil fuels emits significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, posing a serious threat of global warming. Over the past decade, H2 has been evaluated as a green energy source to replace carbon-based ...
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(2025)This study investigates optimal operational conditions for stable granule formation in granular sludge reactors through data-driven modeling and experimental validation. Cluster analysis categorized reactors by settling ...
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(2025)This thesis explores how consensus emerges in social networks and online discussions. It introduces a multi-layer model to measure deliberation in Reddit threads and an agent-based model to study social diffusion driven ...
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(2025)This research explores how people living with Intracranial Hypertension (IH), a rare and complex chronic illness disability, develop valuable knowledge through their lived experiences. By gathering insights from 563 adults ...
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(2024)This thesis investigates the tectonothermal evolution of the Fraser Zone, Western Australia using a multiple geochronometer investigation coupled with phase equilibria modelling. Combined, this strategic method suite ...
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(2025)This research evaluated barrier materials for confining In-situ-recovery (ISR) operations within leaching boundaries and mitigating potential contaminant escape. Tailings-GGBFS binary mixtures were alkali-activated to ...
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(2025)This thesis uses observations to understand the Galactic population of stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars. We place detailed constraints on the deaths of massive stars, and refine existing, and test new, methods ...